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the st john's daily star newfoundland volume 1 ' 3.00 per annum saturday december 11 1915 price one cent no 200 high praise for newfoundland troops allies withdraw from south serbia towards salonika fight many big battles bulgars deliver some desperate at tacks on allied positions which from a bulgar outflanking move ment and from insecure lines of communication had to be aban doned expected allies will make definite stand at salonika which port they will likely retain italians sending relief to serbians through albaniaâ€”russian victory relieves mesopotamia situation major fronts remain quiet ondon dec 1 ivâ€”the anglo french forces have commenced a retirement from southern ser bia and it is their de stination is the region of salonika this retirement was necessitated not only by the superior forces which the bulgarians and germans opposed to ies but to divert an outflanking movement from petrovo where the bulgarians have arrived also the dan ger to their line of communication from bulgarian irregulars who had crossed the greek frontier many desperate battles both the british and french forces who are well supplied with artillery and machine guns engaged in a four days battle in which * they inflicted eavy losses on the bulgarians who ought with desperation and the greatest courage k after attack was repulsed but the bulgarians still came onward each evening the allies fell back to new positions where the events of the day before were repeated iuestion now arises whether the bulgarians and germans will follow the allies across the greek frontier and what attitude the greek government will adopt king constantine promis ed to use his army to protect the re tiring force if they undertake to re embark and has shown his good faith enting bulgarian raiding bands from destroying the allies communica tions retain salonika ll is doubtful whether the allies will agree to evacuate salonika which un der the guns of their ships would pro vide a good defensive position and a base from which other operations could be undertaken it is on this i point that negotiations between greece and the entente allies is now proceed ing and the feeling here and at paris and rome is given briefly in the fol ' lowing paragraph printed in large type by the evening star the moment is approaching when the government must decide and the , allies now more than ever before re quire their freedom of the govern ment at salonika hitherto their de mands had been met by procrastina tion and refusal and now will mean war effective assistance while retiring from southern serbia ibc allied forces have been given ef lective assistance by the montenegrins and serbs who fled into albania this is shown in the resistance which both the serbs and montenegrins are offer ing the invaders the latter have been fighting a series of rearguard actions and delivering counter attacks which the austrians admit seriously delayed their advanro the austrians are now attempting a new advance from the region of berani west of ipek the serbs who are now receiving supplies from the adriatic coast are still showing activ ity the italians also have reinforced the garrison at valona from which place they are sending relief to the serbs coming from the ochrida lake dis ; trict in mesopotamia there is no further news from meso \ potamia where according to the last i accounts the turks were attacking j kut-el-amara and had actually reached ! a point on the river below that town | but the success of the russians in dis ! persing a band of persian rebels and i i urkish officers at the sultan bulak ! pass on the road to hamadan it is ! believed will ease the situation in that part of the world much activity is reported on the gal lipoli peninsula where it is reported fresh german artillery is arriving and on the isonzo from where the italians have gained more ground in the dir ection of gorizia \ along the other fronts no important changes have occured london dec 10.â€”the italian steamer dante alighieri and the nor wegian steamer mereus have been sunk the crews of both vessels were saved magnificent accounts given of newfoundland volunteers colonial secretary bennett writes the star that his excellency the governor is in receipt of a letter from mr h f batterbee of the colonial office downing street in which amongst other things he makes reference to the men of our regi ment in the following terms â€” we jiear magnificent accounts from all sides of the manner in which the men are conducting themselves at the front in gallipoli i hear privately that even the australians speak well of them and than that there can be no higher praise in a letter to governor davidson major whitaker in command of the dspot of the newfoundland regiment at ayr says the newfoundlanders reputation has been made and will last in the minds of every soldier who has met them i am proud of being in command of a portion of the contingent and i have made many friends among them these friendships are likely to last and are high ly cherished ....... ................. . 9 .. t .. e-.c..*Â»*--*--*.â– â€¢â– -â€¢-â€¢â€¢â– â€¢Â«-â– â€¢"â€¢-'â€¢â€¢-â€¢â– -e--*-'*"*.-*"0 peace peace cried mobs as they rioted in berlin streets london dec n.â€”a despatch to the exchange telegraph co from copen hagen says it is reported that a peace demonstration of large proportions took place outside the reichstag berlin on thursday evening several thousand persons says the despatch endeavored to force their way into the reichstag and the crov/ds blocked the streets stopped the street cars and busses the police were three hours restoring order and all the time the crowds kept up cries of peace peace and even went so far as to use insulting language to ward the royal house expects the a hies retire to salonika lt.-col rousset says this will likely be their next move â€” can make themselves ab solutely secure there and await the reinforcements which will enable them to make their next move in balkans daris dec i 1 lt is probable that all the allied forces will retire to grecian territory says lieut.-col rous set military critic of la liberte the principal reason for the balkan expe dition which was to aid the serbians no longer exists and the aim is to guard salonika the withdrawal of the french and british troops should not be regarded as of great importance it was forced by circumstances and the only error is i that it began too late it is hoped that the withdrawal will continue with sufficient rapidity in order that the ini tial error may be repaired once entrenched at salonika the i allies can await in virtually complete i security reinforcements which must be sent as well as a better opportunity to resume the operations of which the present weakness is due to the unfor tunate and irreparable hesitation that dees not permit of continuing it today s.s ronaventnre arrived at alicante i and left again thursday for naples â€¢ canadian soldier murdered grimmest tragedy of presence of dominion troops in great britain london dec ii the most grim i and sensational tragedy that has mark ed the history of canadian troops in england occurred last night at the quiet hampshire village of grayspott where jacques marcus ozanne of the forty-first french-canadian battalion was brutally murdered greeks must give allies pledges entente powers are insistent in their demands london dec 10 in view of the latest turn of events in macedonia the diplomats of the entente powers are pressing the greek government to clear up promptly the situation with regard t the allied troops there as it is considered essential that they enjoy full liberty of movement says a reuter despatch from athens the feeling in greek circles seems somewhat pessimistic according to these advices in view of recent com munications from british and french legations dwelling upon the determin ed attitude of the entente powers attaches recalled by kaiser emperor william accedes to re quest of u s government â€” will name successors washington dec 11.â€”emperor william has personally recalled the naval and military attaches of the ger man embassy here who by their acti vity rendered themselves persona non grata to the united states govern ment the emperor requested the united states offices in securing safe conducts for the departing attaches and for their successors who will be named later driven by hardship hun officers suicide strain of cold and privation in the dvinsk region makes ger man leaders desperateâ€”aus tro-germans have to forage for food supplies â€” entrench for expected russian offensive detrograd dec i i another epidemic of suicides is reported among the german forces in the vicin ity of wvinsk by prisoners captured in that region according to the birzhev ya vedomotsy an afternoon daily pap er nine officers including the command ed or a battalion are said to have end ed their lives within a period of twelve days and the cold and hardships of the campaign are alleged to be the cause polish and serb lanstrums captur ed from the austro-german forces along the southern front report a new alignment of austro-cormans have been detached to forage food and stores from captured territory points near the frontier of vladimir and vohnsk are being hurriedly forti fied with trenches fora radius of seven miles apparently in anticipation of a russian offensive at last mass tomorrow morning at the cathedral the pallium will be conferred on his grace archbishop roche by his l,ordship bishop march cabinet minister gets big majority postmaster general samuel is re , elected in yorkshire i ondon dec 10.â€”postmaster gen oral herbert samuel who war compelled to seek re-election to the commons on accout of his recent ap pointment to the cabinet post of-chan cellor of the duchy of lancashire overwhelmed his opponent in a bye election in the cleveland division of the north riding of yorkshire his vote was 7,312 as against 1,453 obtained by henry knight a printer of leeds mr knight made his cam paign under the auspices of the business government league he al so opposed recent enactments restrict j ing the.sale of liquors the assertion was made by knight i that he represented the consensus of 1 opinion among the labouring classes on the liquor question but labour leaders asserted that his statements that the trade unions were opposed to to the regulations which have been made were untrue * ancona italy dec ! i austrian aeroplanes new over this city yesterday and dropped bombs which killed two people and injured several others no material damage was done greek attitude worries british arefearful of treachery greek ivilitary manoeuvers in the neighborhood of salonika regarded as suspicious and greek officers are said to have boasted of the time when they will attack the of the british papers urge the abandonment of balkan campaign while others recom mend the defence of salonika ondo dec ll.â€”the position of the allied forces in greece fur nishes the chief subject for discussion n the london morning papers optim istic official statements failed to per suade the press and public the situation is not serous it is generally admitted that no alternative to the withdrawal of the allied force to salonika exists some papers notably the weekly the nation go so far as to advocate re-embarkation of the troops while freedom of movement still is possible rather than risk the possibility due to the perplexing attitude of the greek government despatches which are said to have evaded greek censorship have been received in london during the week indicating a suspicion of greek intent ions it was alleged in these despatches that greek officers openly talked of the time when they would attack the allies combined with the assertion that a fort night ago greek military movements in the neighborhood of salonika were suspicious whether or not reliance can be place ed in these reports it is certain the greek attitude causes great disquiet ude a spectitior article less alarming than that employed by the nation favors either the allied troops re-em barking or taking up a position on the plain around salonika where they could remain snug under the protection of the guns of the fleet volunteers rush to join the colors last day but one of the time limit set by earl derby for the testing of the voluntary system sees every recruiting statical in london thronged â€” thousands of men of all classjs offer their services to the efmpire i dec 10.â€”the rush of men who desire to escape the stigma of being forced to join the colors by conscription should it be adopted con tinued to-day the last but one of the rial period for earl derby's recruit ng plan lines termed at recruiting stations is early s five o'clock in the morning and remained there all day the an nouncement that there would be no extension of the time limit for the test olunteer system apparently convinc ed many men of military fitness that derby was in earnest and caused hem to flock to the stations * as applicants the st enes in the recruiting buir eaus weee entirely different from those during regime it is not 4 case of inducing men to en list as the result of appeals made by recruiting sergeants but rather the handlings of applicants who ' wait patiently in long lines three or foul abreast in the cold blustry weather at trafalgar square only is there still a crowd of idlers stood around the base of the monument to hear appeals on behalf of king and country which v\ere being made by the speakers a collection of elderly men boys sol diers foreigners and men wearing khaki armlets the band at the horse guords parads whitehall with mar tial music was attempting to arouse patriotism but at the central recruit ing office at the war office close by hundreds of applicants were awaiting their turn to face the examiners a similar line-up extending to the side walks was found at every recruiting bureau about the only difference to the ob server was the character of the crowds at the various stations in the east end of london the applicants consisted of labourers costers wearing caps with their coat collars turned up in st paul's churchyard were desk work ers office helpers thin chested men of the city type waiting their turn continued on page 2 one week only a snap for the ladies ix kid gloves i black and colored worth 90c & 1.00 pr r^r now a special line "â€¢ f greens / v-l to clear at _- - i w see them at once and get your choice best value ever offered bowring brothers limited read the daily star now due ! schooner ida m zinck with a ? cargo of choice screened sydney coal price 7.60 per ton j while discharging book you orders now to secure delivery unhid coal company

the st john's daily star newfoundland volume 1 ' 3.00 per annum saturday december 11 1915 price one cent no 200 high praise for newfoundland troops allies withdraw from south serbia towards salonika fight many big battles bulgars deliver some desperate at tacks on allied positions which from a bulgar outflanking move ment and from insecure lines of communication had to be aban doned expected allies will make definite stand at salonika which port they will likely retain italians sending relief to serbians through albaniaâ€”russian victory relieves mesopotamia situation major fronts remain quiet ondon dec 1 ivâ€”the anglo french forces have commenced a retirement from southern ser bia and it is their de stination is the region of salonika this retirement was necessitated not only by the superior forces which the bulgarians and germans opposed to ies but to divert an outflanking movement from petrovo where the bulgarians have arrived also the dan ger to their line of communication from bulgarian irregulars who had crossed the greek frontier many desperate battles both the british and french forces who are well supplied with artillery and machine guns engaged in a four days battle in which * they inflicted eavy losses on the bulgarians who ought with desperation and the greatest courage k after attack was repulsed but the bulgarians still came onward each evening the allies fell back to new positions where the events of the day before were repeated iuestion now arises whether the bulgarians and germans will follow the allies across the greek frontier and what attitude the greek government will adopt king constantine promis ed to use his army to protect the re tiring force if they undertake to re embark and has shown his good faith enting bulgarian raiding bands from destroying the allies communica tions retain salonika ll is doubtful whether the allies will agree to evacuate salonika which un der the guns of their ships would pro vide a good defensive position and a base from which other operations could be undertaken it is on this i point that negotiations between greece and the entente allies is now proceed ing and the feeling here and at paris and rome is given briefly in the fol ' lowing paragraph printed in large type by the evening star the moment is approaching when the government must decide and the , allies now more than ever before re quire their freedom of the govern ment at salonika hitherto their de mands had been met by procrastina tion and refusal and now will mean war effective assistance while retiring from southern serbia ibc allied forces have been given ef lective assistance by the montenegrins and serbs who fled into albania this is shown in the resistance which both the serbs and montenegrins are offer ing the invaders the latter have been fighting a series of rearguard actions and delivering counter attacks which the austrians admit seriously delayed their advanro the austrians are now attempting a new advance from the region of berani west of ipek the serbs who are now receiving supplies from the adriatic coast are still showing activ ity the italians also have reinforced the garrison at valona from which place they are sending relief to the serbs coming from the ochrida lake dis ; trict in mesopotamia there is no further news from meso \ potamia where according to the last i accounts the turks were attacking j kut-el-amara and had actually reached ! a point on the river below that town | but the success of the russians in dis ! persing a band of persian rebels and i i urkish officers at the sultan bulak ! pass on the road to hamadan it is ! believed will ease the situation in that part of the world much activity is reported on the gal lipoli peninsula where it is reported fresh german artillery is arriving and on the isonzo from where the italians have gained more ground in the dir ection of gorizia \ along the other fronts no important changes have occured london dec 10.â€”the italian steamer dante alighieri and the nor wegian steamer mereus have been sunk the crews of both vessels were saved magnificent accounts given of newfoundland volunteers colonial secretary bennett writes the star that his excellency the governor is in receipt of a letter from mr h f batterbee of the colonial office downing street in which amongst other things he makes reference to the men of our regi ment in the following terms â€” we jiear magnificent accounts from all sides of the manner in which the men are conducting themselves at the front in gallipoli i hear privately that even the australians speak well of them and than that there can be no higher praise in a letter to governor davidson major whitaker in command of the dspot of the newfoundland regiment at ayr says the newfoundlanders reputation has been made and will last in the minds of every soldier who has met them i am proud of being in command of a portion of the contingent and i have made many friends among them these friendships are likely to last and are high ly cherished ....... ................. . 9 .. t .. e-.c..*Â»*--*--*.â– â€¢â– -â€¢-â€¢â€¢â– â€¢Â«-â– â€¢"â€¢-'â€¢â€¢-â€¢â– -e--*-'*"*.-*"0 peace peace cried mobs as they rioted in berlin streets london dec n.â€”a despatch to the exchange telegraph co from copen hagen says it is reported that a peace demonstration of large proportions took place outside the reichstag berlin on thursday evening several thousand persons says the despatch endeavored to force their way into the reichstag and the crov/ds blocked the streets stopped the street cars and busses the police were three hours restoring order and all the time the crowds kept up cries of peace peace and even went so far as to use insulting language to ward the royal house expects the a hies retire to salonika lt.-col rousset says this will likely be their next move â€” can make themselves ab solutely secure there and await the reinforcements which will enable them to make their next move in balkans daris dec i 1 lt is probable that all the allied forces will retire to grecian territory says lieut.-col rous set military critic of la liberte the principal reason for the balkan expe dition which was to aid the serbians no longer exists and the aim is to guard salonika the withdrawal of the french and british troops should not be regarded as of great importance it was forced by circumstances and the only error is i that it began too late it is hoped that the withdrawal will continue with sufficient rapidity in order that the ini tial error may be repaired once entrenched at salonika the i allies can await in virtually complete i security reinforcements which must be sent as well as a better opportunity to resume the operations of which the present weakness is due to the unfor tunate and irreparable hesitation that dees not permit of continuing it today s.s ronaventnre arrived at alicante i and left again thursday for naples â€¢ canadian soldier murdered grimmest tragedy of presence of dominion troops in great britain london dec ii the most grim i and sensational tragedy that has mark ed the history of canadian troops in england occurred last night at the quiet hampshire village of grayspott where jacques marcus ozanne of the forty-first french-canadian battalion was brutally murdered greeks must give allies pledges entente powers are insistent in their demands london dec 10 in view of the latest turn of events in macedonia the diplomats of the entente powers are pressing the greek government to clear up promptly the situation with regard t the allied troops there as it is considered essential that they enjoy full liberty of movement says a reuter despatch from athens the feeling in greek circles seems somewhat pessimistic according to these advices in view of recent com munications from british and french legations dwelling upon the determin ed attitude of the entente powers attaches recalled by kaiser emperor william accedes to re quest of u s government â€” will name successors washington dec 11.â€”emperor william has personally recalled the naval and military attaches of the ger man embassy here who by their acti vity rendered themselves persona non grata to the united states govern ment the emperor requested the united states offices in securing safe conducts for the departing attaches and for their successors who will be named later driven by hardship hun officers suicide strain of cold and privation in the dvinsk region makes ger man leaders desperateâ€”aus tro-germans have to forage for food supplies â€” entrench for expected russian offensive detrograd dec i i another epidemic of suicides is reported among the german forces in the vicin ity of wvinsk by prisoners captured in that region according to the birzhev ya vedomotsy an afternoon daily pap er nine officers including the command ed or a battalion are said to have end ed their lives within a period of twelve days and the cold and hardships of the campaign are alleged to be the cause polish and serb lanstrums captur ed from the austro-german forces along the southern front report a new alignment of austro-cormans have been detached to forage food and stores from captured territory points near the frontier of vladimir and vohnsk are being hurriedly forti fied with trenches fora radius of seven miles apparently in anticipation of a russian offensive at last mass tomorrow morning at the cathedral the pallium will be conferred on his grace archbishop roche by his l,ordship bishop march cabinet minister gets big majority postmaster general samuel is re , elected in yorkshire i ondon dec 10.â€”postmaster gen oral herbert samuel who war compelled to seek re-election to the commons on accout of his recent ap pointment to the cabinet post of-chan cellor of the duchy of lancashire overwhelmed his opponent in a bye election in the cleveland division of the north riding of yorkshire his vote was 7,312 as against 1,453 obtained by henry knight a printer of leeds mr knight made his cam paign under the auspices of the business government league he al so opposed recent enactments restrict j ing the.sale of liquors the assertion was made by knight i that he represented the consensus of 1 opinion among the labouring classes on the liquor question but labour leaders asserted that his statements that the trade unions were opposed to to the regulations which have been made were untrue * ancona italy dec ! i austrian aeroplanes new over this city yesterday and dropped bombs which killed two people and injured several others no material damage was done greek attitude worries british arefearful of treachery greek ivilitary manoeuvers in the neighborhood of salonika regarded as suspicious and greek officers are said to have boasted of the time when they will attack the of the british papers urge the abandonment of balkan campaign while others recom mend the defence of salonika ondo dec ll.â€”the position of the allied forces in greece fur nishes the chief subject for discussion n the london morning papers optim istic official statements failed to per suade the press and public the situation is not serous it is generally admitted that no alternative to the withdrawal of the allied force to salonika exists some papers notably the weekly the nation go so far as to advocate re-embarkation of the troops while freedom of movement still is possible rather than risk the possibility due to the perplexing attitude of the greek government despatches which are said to have evaded greek censorship have been received in london during the week indicating a suspicion of greek intent ions it was alleged in these despatches that greek officers openly talked of the time when they would attack the allies combined with the assertion that a fort night ago greek military movements in the neighborhood of salonika were suspicious whether or not reliance can be place ed in these reports it is certain the greek attitude causes great disquiet ude a spectitior article less alarming than that employed by the nation favors either the allied troops re-em barking or taking up a position on the plain around salonika where they could remain snug under the protection of the guns of the fleet volunteers rush to join the colors last day but one of the time limit set by earl derby for the testing of the voluntary system sees every recruiting statical in london thronged â€” thousands of men of all classjs offer their services to the efmpire i dec 10.â€”the rush of men who desire to escape the stigma of being forced to join the colors by conscription should it be adopted con tinued to-day the last but one of the rial period for earl derby's recruit ng plan lines termed at recruiting stations is early s five o'clock in the morning and remained there all day the an nouncement that there would be no extension of the time limit for the test olunteer system apparently convinc ed many men of military fitness that derby was in earnest and caused hem to flock to the stations * as applicants the st enes in the recruiting buir eaus weee entirely different from those during regime it is not 4 case of inducing men to en list as the result of appeals made by recruiting sergeants but rather the handlings of applicants who ' wait patiently in long lines three or foul abreast in the cold blustry weather at trafalgar square only is there still a crowd of idlers stood around the base of the monument to hear appeals on behalf of king and country which v\ere being made by the speakers a collection of elderly men boys sol diers foreigners and men wearing khaki armlets the band at the horse guords parads whitehall with mar tial music was attempting to arouse patriotism but at the central recruit ing office at the war office close by hundreds of applicants were awaiting their turn to face the examiners a similar line-up extending to the side walks was found at every recruiting bureau about the only difference to the ob server was the character of the crowds at the various stations in the east end of london the applicants consisted of labourers costers wearing caps with their coat collars turned up in st paul's churchyard were desk work ers office helpers thin chested men of the city type waiting their turn continued on page 2 one week only a snap for the ladies ix kid gloves i black and colored worth 90c & 1.00 pr r^r now a special line "â€¢ f greens / v-l to clear at _- - i w see them at once and get your choice best value ever offered bowring brothers limited read the daily star now due ! schooner ida m zinck with a ? cargo of choice screened sydney coal price 7.60 per ton j while discharging book you orders now to secure delivery unhid coal company